September 12, 2007

SIKESTON -- Grace LeAnn Louis Wynn, 92, died Sept. 6, 2007, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Born May 14, 1915, in Penola County, Miss., to the late Richard and Lillie Washington Shaw, she moved to the Essex area in 1959 and then to Sikeston in 1984. She was a homemaker, a child care provider and a member of the Travelers Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Sikeston...

SIKESTON -- Grace LeAnn Louis Wynn, 92, died Sept. 6, 2007, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

Born May 14, 1915, in Penola County, Miss., to the late Richard and Lillie Washington Shaw, she moved to the Essex area in 1959 and then to Sikeston in 1984. She was a homemaker, a child care provider and a member of the Travelers Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Sikeston.

In 1934, she married Relicious Wynn who preceded her in death.

Also preceding her in death were one brother, James Shaw; and two grandsons and one great-grandson.

Survivors include: two sons, Lucious Wynn of Sikeston and Otis Wynn of Parma; four daughters, Clara Hankins, Lillie Baker and Edna Herrion of Sikeston and Grace Kelly of Crenshaw, Miss.; one adopted sister, Deloris McComb of Poplar Bluff; 26 grandchildren, 58 great-grandchildren and 36 great-great-

grandchildren; and two special friends, Betty Ottinger and Minnie Strachan.

Visitation is from 10 a.m. until time of services at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. The Rev. Herman Gardner of Sikeston will officiate.

Burial will follow in the Sunset of Memories Cemetery in Sikeston.

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